Secret History: U-2 Spy Planes on Aircraft Carriers On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a CIA U-2 spy plane and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. It was an international crisis for ...

The U-2 spy plane is an engineering marvel, but it can't land on its own. This is the complicated process pilots have to go through to bring the plane down safely. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook ...

After nearly 70 years of service, the U.S. Air Force plans to begin divesting its fleet of U-2 Dragon Lady spy planes starting in fiscal year 2025, budget documents show By Jared Keller Posted on ...

The Dodge Charger was used to assist Lockheed U-2 spy planes during takeoff and landing. It includes unique military upgrades like a performance exhaust and heavy-duty suspension. Powering the muscle ...

China has lodged "stern representations" with the United States, accusing it of sending a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane into a no-fly zone over Chinese live-fire military drills on Tuesday ...

In Nevada, the deadliest plane crash was in 1964. A four-engine Constellation operated by California’s Paradise Airlines traveling from Oakland crashed in a mountain near Lake Tahoe after two failed ...

That's because the Air Force had begun its testing of the U-2 aircraft. The U-2 can fly higher than 60,000 feet. At the time, normal airliners were flying in the 10,000 to 20,000 feet range.

Krushchev's further remarks about the unarmed plane which is reported to have been shot down in the Soviet Union. As previously announced, it was known that a U-2 plane was missing. As a result of ...

A ‘TOP secret’ U-2 spy plane flew across the Ayrshire coast on its way back to the United States on Tuesday. The US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft arrived in the UK last week, landing at RAF ...